SHARE: How a Focus on Independent Learning Transformed My Most At-Risk Students
The first time I saw Kevin, he shuffled into my classroom, staring sideways toward the floor. It was the third day of the new school year—he hadn’t made it to my room the first two days. “Hi. You must be Kevin,” I said with a smile. Kevin didn’t look at me. He only grunted a slight noise and looked around for a place to sit. As it turned out, Kevin was mostly non-verbal with emotional and learning disabilities. He was also an apathetic student who lacked the ability and desir
SHARE: 6 Months To Go: A Teacher’s Guide for Winning the 2nd Half of the School Year
It’s January, which means there are six months of classes, lesson planning, meetings, and assessments left. As hardworking educators, we can easily start wishing away the rest of the year to get to summer. But honestly, by maintaining a healthy and clear perspective, there’s no reason that this year couldn’t be your best teaching year yet. Here, you’ll find some simple advice for building and sustaining a positive outlook from now until June. We can do this! Reflect & Renew J
SHARE: Teach Students To Use Social Media (The Right Way) And The Possibilities Are Endless
CJ Marple wanted to teach his young students how quickly information can spread on the Internet. So earlier this year, the third-grade science teacher wrote up a tweet with the help of his students, asking for other users to retweet the message, or even reply to the message with their location. The Kansas teacher says he expected 1,000 or so retweets, but within days the tweet went viral and gained more than 227,000 retweets and 75,000 replies from users all over the world. H
Meet the EDxEDNYC Conference Team — Lori Stahl-Van Brackle
Meet Lori Stahl-Van Brackle Meet Lori Stahl-Van Brackle, newest member of the EDxEDNYC Conference Team! The EDxED team is made up of dedicated teachers who started the EDxEDNYC conference years ago to bring together amazing educators for a truly authentic PD experience. The EDxEDNYC Conference is designed for educators by educators. For conference tickets, visit www.edxednyc.com/tickets. Follow Lori on Twitter @loristava #team #meettheteam #Lori #StahlVanBrackle #tech #confer
SHARE: How to Run a Meeting: Agendas and Protocols That Really Work
We’ve all been there — sitting in a meeting that could have been an email while our other tasks continue to mount in our minds. A glance around the room finds some people drifting, scrolling on their phones, checking the clock while just a few people monopolize the conversation. Time is so precious in schools, and meetings can become a serious time suck. But it doesn’t have to be this way! Here’s some ground rules for effective meetings and advice for shifting your meeting cu
SHARE: A Root Cause of the Teacher-Diversity Problem
Conversations focus on getting more black educators into the profession—but what if the problem starts with bias in hiring practices? Having just earned a teaching degree from Pennsylvania’s Millersville University, Rian Reed set out in 2011 to find a position working with special-needs students. Born and raised in a suburb outside of Philadelphia, she had built an enviable academic record, earning induction into the National Honor Society in high school and speaking at her
SHARE: Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?
"If something on their desk or in their pocket dings, rings or vibrates — they will lose focus." "Students are doing so much in class, distraction and disruption isn't really something I worry about." How should teachers — both K-12 and college — deal with the use of computers and phones by students in class? On the one hand, those sleek little supercomputers promise to connect us to all human knowledge. On the other hand, they are also scientifically designed by some of the
Meet the EDxEDNYC Conference Team: Walter Brown
Meet Walter Brown Meet Walter Brown, founding member of the EDxEDNYC Conference Team. The EDxED team is made up of dedicated teachers who started the EDxEDNYC conference years ago to bring together amazing educators for a truly authentic PD experience. The EDxEDNYC Conference is designed for educators by educators. For conference tickets, visit www.edxednyc.com/tickets. Follow Walter on Twitter @wbrownhs #team #conferenceteam #EDxEDNYC #Walter #WalterBrown #Wally #assistantpr
SHARE: Essential Strategies for Managing Trauma in the Classroom
Poverty, violence, hunger, abuse, and an unstable world are causing chronic stress for our nation’s kids. And that sad truth is that prolonged exposure to stress can damage the centers of the brain associated with learning, cause behavioral problems, and increase the cycle of violence. Nearly half of the children in the United States, or almost 35 million kids, have experienced “at least one or more types of serious childhood trauma,” according to a survey by the National Sur
Meet the EDxEDNYC Conference Team — Lamar Long
Meet Lamar Long Meet Lamar Long, a member of the EDxEDNYC Conference Team. Lamar is Sponsorship Coordinator for the 2018 conference! The EDxED team is made up of dedicated teachers who started the EDxEDNYC conference years ago to bring together amazing educators for a truly authentic PD experience. The EDxEDNYC Conference is designed for educators by educators. For conference tickets, visit www.edxednyc.com/tickets. Follow Lamar on Twitter @teachLTL #team #conferenceteam #lam
SHARE: Thriving in Your First Years as a Teacher
Six realistic, low-stress steps you can take to improve your teaching in the hectic early years of your career. It is a universal truth that early career teachers are overwhelmed. Between classroom management issues, lesson plans, and grading, we’re oftentimes drowning. With all the pressure to simply survive our first few years of teaching, doing anything else in the name of improvement may seem impossible. As a second-year teacher, I have days when I find myself treating li
Meet the EDxEDNYC Conference Team — Vince Joralemon
Meet Vince Joralemon Meet Vince Joralemon, session coordinator and logistics manager for the EDxEDNYC Conference Team. The EDxED team is made up of dedicated teachers who started the EDxEDNYC conference years ago to bring together amazing educators for a truly authentic PD experience. The EDxEDNYC Conference is designed for educators by educators. For conference tickets, visit www.edxednyc.com/tickets. #Vince #team #conferenceteam #EDxEDNYC #logistics #session #coordinator #F
Meet the EDxEDNYC Conference Team — Jennifer L.M. Gunn
Meet Jennifer L.M. Gunn Meet Jennifer L.M. Gunn, founding member of the EDxEDNYC Conference Team! The EDxED team is made up of dedicated education professionals who started the EDxEDNYC conference years ago to bring together amazing educators for a truly authentic PD experience. The EDxEDNYC Conference is designed for educators by educators. For conference tickets, visit http://www.edxednyc.com/tickets. Follow Jennifer on Twitter @jenniferlmgunn and start the conversation wit
The Benefits of Helping Teens Identify Their Purpose in Life
It’s 12:15 p.m. on a Tuesday in December and 30 students gather for an unusual class at the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a public high school located in one of the country’s poorest Congressional districts. Two seniors, who have been trained to lead the class, are presiding over today’s session on the theme of interpersonal connection. They project a slide on a topic of near-universal interest to teenagers – social media. It asks, “How connected are we?” and then